The Delta independent., 1887-04-12
COLORADO CONDENSED.

| COLORADO CONDENSED.
Akron now has three banks.
The real estate boom has struck Ala
mosa.
The State Legislature has adjourned
siNl de.
Pueblo is to have an opera house
costing 100000.
1t costs about st2, 900 year to run
the town Of Greeley.
Strawberries have made their ap-
pearance In the Denver market.
Geo. w. Cook was reelected mayor
of Leadville by about TOO majority.
E. T. Ensign, Of Colorado Springs,
has been reappointed Forest Commissioner.
Andrew d. Wilson has been appoint
ed Railroad Commissioner to serve without
pay.
During the recent revival services at
Canon City l5o persons have confessed con-
version.
The Methodists Of Lamar have let
the contract for the erection of house of
worship.
The steel works at Bessemer are in
creasing the facilities by building another
blast furnace.
C. P. Hoyt has been appointed
Warden of the Penitentiary and Rev. E. J.
Hall, Chaplain.
The two smelters and the steel W orks
of Pueblo pay out to their employees nearly
500, 900 each month.
The anti-saloon and anti-gambling
ticket was successful in Monte Vista by
majority Of two to one.
A Telluride marriage notice: "No
cards, no cake, no flowers. no thanks, no
wine, no regrets, and nobody's business"
One of the pack trains which sup
plies the laborers at Hagerman Tunnel
with provisions, consists of sixty-eight bur-
ros.
John ID, Vaughn, q Denver printer
and President Of the Trades Assembly OF
that city, has been appointed Private Sec
retary to Governor Adams.
Mr.. Henry Feldwisch. dairy CON-
missioner under the administration Of Gov
ernor Eaton. will be continued in the same
position with the administration of Cover
nor Adams.
The clothing Of Mrs. G. o. Nevins,
Of Colorado Springs, accidentally caught
fre. and the unfortunate woman was fright
fully burned before assistance reached her.
Her life is despaired Of.
Fourteen thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four freight cars were handled in
the Salida yard during the month Of March.
This Is the largest number Of cars ever
handled at this place in one month.
The citizens Of the town Of Las Ami
mas, Bent county, last week subscribed
e45O for the purpose of advertising the
town, and the Town Council promptly
added an appropriation Of $500 to the same
fund.
Colorado's coal fields embrace an
area Of about 10000 square miles, or about
one-ihird Of the entire State. In this area,
strata'at 80, 900 square miles. As prospect
Ing is extended this is liable to be largely
increased, It will certainly not be dimin.
ished.
The scheme to turn Cherry creek
from It's wonted channel into the Platte a
few miles below Denver was voted down at
the late election. There were none but prop
erty holders allowed to vote on this occa-
sion and for this matter, and they voted to
let the turbulent stream flow on where it
has flown since time began.
Last season while the Deputy Fish
Commissioner was at Poncha Springs, as
an experiment he put = handful of trout
that were about one inch long into pond
below the spring that is kept warm from
the fountain head all the year round. To his
surprise when visiting the pond again one
year later he found that the fish had grown
to be fully toot long.
The farmers along Clear Creek are
making vigorous kick over the pollution
Of the waters Of that stream by the stamp
mills Of Clear Creek and Gilpin counties.
They claim that thousands Of acres have
been rendered sterile by the sediment
which II carries. II is proposed to test the
question In the courts, whether or not the
mills have = right to pollute the water.
Elections for city officials were held
In nearly all the towns of the State last
Tuesday. In Denver the Republicans
elected w. Scott Lee mayor and all the rest
Of their ticket except three aldermen. The
Republicans were also victorious in Aspen,
Grand Junction, Salida, Colorado Springs,
Boulder and Montrose, the Democrats In
Pueblo and Central City and the Peoples
ticket In Silverton.
Ex-Governor Gilpin has applied to
the Superior Court Denver, for divorce
from his wife. The Governor Is "A years
old and his wife Is past 30. He brings var
ious charges against her, among others an
ungovernable passion, extreme cruelty,